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President Biden on Thursday condemned the increase in hate crimes versus Asian Americans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, stating “it is wrong, it is un-American and it must stop.”

Biden, in his first prime-time speech as commander in chief, stated the group has actually been unfairly targeted in the wave of attacks and harassment over the last year.

” Too often we have actually turned against one another,” Biden stated, as he decried the “vicious hate criminal activities against Asian Americans, who’ve been attacked, pestered, blamed and scapegoated.”

” At this very moment, numerous of them, our fellow Americans, they’re on the cutting edge of this pandemic trying to conserve lives,” Biden continued.

” And still, they’re required to reside in fear for their lives simply walking down streets in America.”

Cops in significant cities from coast to coast have actually seen a rise in Asian-targeted hate criminal offenses between 2019 and 2020.

In New York City, the NYPD’s hate criminal offense task force tape-recorded 28 anti-Asian attacks in 2015– compared to simply 2 occurrences in 2019.

Los Angeles recorded 15 occurrences compared to seven in 2019 and Denver had 3 attacks in 2020– the first reported there in six years, according to data gathered by the Center for the Research Study of Hate & Extremism in California.

With Post wires